4-Year-Old Christchurch Victim Wakes from Coma, Now She Can’t See

A four-year-old girl shot in the Christchurch terror attacks has awoken from a coma and she cannot see anyone or recognize her parents, Global News reported. “My daughter Alen woke up five days ago, and she’s had a lot of surgeries,” her father Waseeim Daraghmih said in a video uploaded to Facebook, adding that there were as many as eight operations. “She has brain damage at the moment, and the doctors have been telling us they need four to six months to know how bad the damage is.” Alen Daraghmih suffered brain damage after she and her father were shot at&hellip;

The page has raised more than $46,000 since it was set up by a friend of Daraghmih’s on April 11.

Despite suffering brain damage, the Givealittle page states that Alen is making daily progress, but cannot currently speak or see people.

“She has begun to say the odd word and recognizes her mother’s voice,” he said.

The father himself is recovering from gunshot wounds in his hip area. He cannot walk currently but expects to walk again when fully recovered.

“It’s going to be a long time for me to walk, but eventually I will walk,” he said.

“I’m up here in Auckland, thanking everybody, the doctors in the hospital, everybody, and of course our prime minister … for all the help and support you have provided for me and for my family and for keeping my family here for support.